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Dr. Joanne Martin’s Great Blacks in Wax Museum

October 23, 2023October 22, 2023 Menika Dirkson Black women, curation, education, material culture, museums

Across America, The National Great Blacks in Wax Museum is known for highlighting unvarnished accounts of African American History from

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1978 GRANES Quilombo parade

Rio’s Carnival Quilombo

October 19, 2023October 16, 2023 João Gabriel Rabello Sodré and Vítor Antunes Afro-Brazilians, Afro-Latinx, Brazil, Carnival

This post is part of our forum on “Race and Latin America.” Brazil’s Carnival is widely imagined as a locus

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Reckoning with Whiteness in Brazil

October 18, 2023October 16, 2023 Stephanie Reist #AAIHSRoundtable, #raceandlatinamerica, Brazil, Latin America

This post is part of our forum on “Race and Latin America.” In a pivotal scene in Kleber Mendonca Filho’s

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Posthumous Authority: Revisiting Carolina Maria de Jesus

October 17, 2023October 16, 2023 Cassie Osei #raceandlatinamerica, African Diaspora, Black women, Gender, race

This post is part of our forum on “Race and Latin America” In the bustling streets of Paris, the French

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Black Actresses as Symbols of Resistance to Brazilian Racial Democracy

October 16, 2023October 8, 2023 Jasmine Mitchell #raceandlatinamerica, Afro-Brazilians, Black women, Latin America, Resistance

This post is part of our forum on “Race and Latin America.” “Sou negra” (I am Black), declare Taís Araújo

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